CURRENT:

Conte d’été

A Summer Group Show

16.7 - 29.8.2026

Conte d’été — July 16th

Arthur Coquelin is thrilled to present Conte d’été, a group exhibition of rare works by six generation-defining artists from all over Europe.

Opening reception: Thursday, July 16th, 6-9pm

The exhibition adopts a dynamic format and responds to a set of guidelines you will find below.

With:
Marcello Concari
Emma Guareschi
Leon Philipp
Emile Rubino
Paola Siri Renard
Mara Wimberger

Guidelines:

For Conte d’été, the galerie, in collaboration with the artists, decided to adopt a dynamic format with a set of guidelines.

The show consists of six artworks, one per artist. Each week, one work is being presented.

In addition to pictures of the works themselves, we will be sharing on Instagram supporting text and visuals developed by the artists themselves.

Each artwork may only be purchased during their assigned week, not at any other time.

Each work is available at the moment of posting.

We put in place a ”no on hold” policy for this show.

We encourage you to buy the work, support the artist and their studio.

SPOTLIGHT 01

Emile Rubino

22.7 - 28.7.2026

Adjusted for Inflation, 2024
26.15 x 48.7 cm (framed)
10 3⁄8 x 19 3⁄16 in
Inkjet print mounted on dibond, wood frame, glass
Edition of 1 + 1 AP

Emile Rubino (b. 1992, Stavanger, Norway - French) lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.

Recent exhibitions include Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2026); Basel Social Club, Basel (2026); Cloud Seven, Brussels (2025); LambdaLambdaLambda hosted by Hussenot, Paris (2025); WIELS Affiliate, Brussels (2024); LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina (2024, 2023); KIN, Brussels (2024); Soft Opening, London (2024); Air de Paris, Romainville (2023); rhizome_, Kortrijk (2023); CC Strombeek, Grimbergen (2022); FOMU, Antwerp (2022); Treize, Paris (2022); Situations, New York (2021).

Together with Felix Rapp, Rubino co-edits Le Chauffage magazine, an artist-run publication based between Brussels, Belgium and Vancouver, Canada. His writing has appeared in frieze, Mousse, Text zur Kunst, Spike, Art & Order, CFA, Provence and The Capilano Review among others.

Emile Rubino holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver (2015) and an MFA from ICP-Bard College, New York (2017). His work has been acquired for the permanent collection of Kanal-Centre Pompidou, Brussels and will be included in their forthcoming inaugural exhibition in November 2026.

Context

Working through the semantics of picture-making, Emile Rubino plays with the clumsy and often ambiguous nature of photography’s declarative register. By combining, appropriating or reinterpreting a wide range of photographic discourses and histories, he directs our attention towards the photographic image as both an object and a depiction—a thin yet capacious container whose material, contextual and ideological relationship to labor and creativity is a constant negotiation. His purposefully eclectic and at times collaborative approach to picture-making involves a mix of analogue and digital processes in an attempt to question the notion of ‘the photographic’ and address the complex relationship between the social roles of art and realism.

To inquire about the artwork, email info@arthurcoquelin.com.

SPOTLIGHT 02

ON VIEW THIS WEEK

Emma Guareschi

29.7 - 4.8.2026

Wet Gold, 2026
32.9 x 40.9 cm
12 7⁄8 x 16 1⁄8 in
Oil & Gesso on wood panel

Emma Guareschi (b. 1994, Calais, France) lives and works in Paris, France.

Recent exhibitions include Cabin, New York (2025); Chamberlin, Zürich (2025); Safehouse, London (2025); 243 Luz & Co, Margate (2024).

She will have a solo exhibition at 243 Luz & Co, London in 2027.

Emma Guareschi holds a BA in Drawing from Camberwell College of Arts (UAL), London (2016) and completed the Drawing Year at the Royal Drawing School, London (2019).

Her work is part of prominent public and private collections such as Royal Collection Trust, UAL Art Collection, Michael Moritz Private Collection and Peter Mikic Private Collection.

Context

"Figures recur throughout my work in states of fragmentation, puppet-like, suspended, neither fully present nor fully gone. The instability is deliberate. It reflects an interest in bodies under pressure, in what it means to occupy space on uncertain terms. My work develops in series: drawings, prints and photocopies that are gradually translated into painting. Each series is addressed to someone specific and intended to be sent, a constraint that shapes the work from the outset, and that is never fulfilled. The objects gather a different kind of weight over time, becoming subjects in their own right, things that have outlasted their original purpose without finding another. That state of suspended intention keeps returning. Figuration is not the point so much as the vehicle, a way of asking whose presence gets recognised, and what the world might look like if the answer were different."

To inquire about the artwork, email info@arthurcoquelin.com.

SPOTLIGHT 03

UNLOCKS WEDNESDAY 5.8

SPOTLIGHT 04

UNLOCKS WEDNESDAY 12.8

SPOTLIGHT 05

UNLOCKS WEDNESDAY 19.8

SPOTLIGHT 06

UNLOCKS WEDNESDAY 26.8

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